The Low Carb Cardiologist Podcast

LCCP032: Nina Teicholz — The Nutrition Coalition

Nina Teicholz joins me for a second time (listen to our first
interview in episode 8), this time to discuss her groundbreaking
work reforming our dietary guidelines. Nina is the bestselling
author of The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong
in a Healthy Diet, and she is the Executive Director of the
Nutrition Coalition, a non-profit organization that promotes
evidence-based nutrition policy. During our discussion, Nina shares
the origin of the nutritional guidelines, and the unbelieveable
story of how they came to be. She also shares the frightening
reality of how deeply the guidelines influence society and how they
are based on flimsy data in desperate need of an update. Despite
the simplicity of her mission, to base the guidelines on science,
she has been consistently criticized and thwarted by the Medical
Industrial Complex, disinvited from nutritional conferences, and
targeted for unwarranted journal retraction. It’s hard to believe,
but it’s all true! Listen to our interview to find out more!

Key Takeaways:

[3:12] The mission of the Nutrition Coalition.

[5:48] The nutritional guidelines have a far-reaching
influence over many different sectors.

[11:05] Are nutritional guidelines evidence-based and
who creates them?

[17:44] Nina was disinvited to be on a food policy
panel from the National Food Policy Conference.

[26:05] In the 1950’s, why was saving middle-aged men
from heart disease all the rage?

[28:55] Does the government belong in the position of
giving dietary advice?

[35:35] The Nutrition Coalition has been critical of
the non-science-based guidelines and the US media for generalizing
what is good for an entire population.